U-Pb zircon ages of Kangamiut dykes and detrital zircons in metasediments in the Palaeoproterozoic Nagssugtoqidian Orogen (West Greenland) clues to the pre-collisional history of the orogen

Precambrian Research

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 87-104

  Nutman, Allen P ^a   Kalsbeek, Feiko ^b,c   Marker, Mogens ^c   Van Gool, Jeroen A M ^c   Bridgwater, David ^d  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^c DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Detrital zircons; Geochronology; Greenland; Mafic dykes; Metasediments; Nagssugtoqidian orogen; Palaeoproterozoic

Indexed keywords

DIKE; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; PROTEROZOIC; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0032850513     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-9268(98)00099-0     Document Type: Article

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